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SEVEN DEAD BABIES
Police: Utah mom admitted to killing her 6 babies
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Authorities say a Utah woman accused of killing six babies that she gave birth to over 10 years told investigators that she either strangled or suffocated the children and then put them inside boxes in her garage.
According to a probable cause statement released by police Monday, Megan Huntsman said that between 1996 and 2006, she gave birth to at least seven babies at her home and that all but one of them were born alive.
She said she killed them immediately after they were born, and put their bodies inside boxes. The statement said each baby was wrapped in either a towel or a shirt, and placed in a plastic bag.
Huntsman is being held on $6 million bail — $1 million for each baby she's accused of killing.
RANGE SHOWDOWN
Nevada rancher says US may have damaged his cows
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A Nevada rancher says he's trying to determine whether federal agents damaged any of his cattle before they released hundreds of rounded-up bovines in a showdown with angry protesters over the weekend.
Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze says the agency released the cattle to avoid a potentially violent situation in a decades-long dispute over states' rights and grazing on public lands. He says Cliven (KLEYE'-vihn) Bundy owes more than $1 million in grazing fees for trespassing on federal lands since the 1990s.
The BLM suspended the roundup Saturday after armed militia members joined hundreds of states' rights protesters at the scene.
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore says she fears some of the calves that were seized won't survive because they were separated from their mothers.
SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION
Legislators say they won't override Gov.'s vetoes
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah legislators say they won't override a handful of vetoes from Gov. Gary Herbert.
Senate and House leaders released polls Monday revealing that 61 legislators opposed undoing the governor's action on three measures. Forty-two legislators voted in favor.
The vetoed proposals deal with legislative subpoenas, parental review of school curriculum and government fee-assessment areas.
Herbert has said the bill to bolster legislative subpoena power could violate civil rights by barring people from challenging a legislative subpoena in court.
The school-curriculum bill would have tasked an existing parent committee with reviewing complaints related to lessons and class materials, a duty Herbert says should first go to school boards.
The third bill Herbert vetoed was a technical proposal he said delayed six natural-gas projects in rural Utah that were ready to go.
MAN KILLED
Officer kills Utah man said to be suicidal
CENTERVILLE, Utah (AP) — A police officer in Centerville, Utah has killed a 39-year-old man said to be suicidal.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Vincent John Farrand was killed on Sunday afternoon.
Assistant Centerville Police Chief Paul Child says Farrand's wife called police, saying her husband was suicidal and upset that another man had hit on her. She said he'd armed himself and left for the man's home.
Officers began looking for Farrand and eventually determined that he'd returned home. Police say Farrand came outside with a handgun in and approached police. Police plead with him to put the gun down. Instead, he pointed the gun at the officers, and one shot him dead.
The officer who killed Farrand been placed on routine paid administrative leave as authorities investigate what happened.
COUNTY CONVENTIONS-UTAH
Salt Lake County conventions choose nominees
(Information in the following story is from: The Salt Lake Tribune, http://www.sltrib.com)
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Republicans and Democrats have chosen their nominees for Salt Lake County seats at separate weekend conventions.
The Republican county councilman nomination went to Micah Bruner. He is vying to replace Democrat Randy Horiuchi, who is retiring.
If Bruner defeats Horiuchi's chosen Democratic successor Jenny Wilson, city council Republicans will hold a veto-proof majority.
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the day was a big one for Democratic women in the race for county seats.
Democrat Sandra Hollins advanced toward becoming the state's first black female legislator. She won the bid to replace Salt Lake City Rep. Jennifer Seelig, who is retiring.
Also at the Republican gathering, U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch criticized what he said were poor domestic policies, pointing to Obamacare.
The parties' statewide conventions are two weeks away.
STRANDED FAMILY RESCUED
Father struggled to keep sons alive while stranded
PANGUITCH, Utah (AP) — A Utah father says emergency preparation helped save the lives of his two young sons after a three-hour hike turned into a multi-day ordeal.
Jason Knight of Payson, Utah was stranded for three days in a canyon with his sons after he got trapped Wednesday between tight walls. His 8- and 11-year-old sons stayed on a ledge atop the canyon with just a granola bar and some water to sustain them.
On Monday, Knight described signaling to his sons to stay put. They were too far away to hear him. He told Good Morning America (http://abcn.ws/1eqf5oX) that families must teach their children what to do in an emergency.
But he acknowledged that even with that training, his sons wouldn't have made it out without the aid of helicopter rescuers.
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